On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 02:41:22PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> We just had a user complaint that seems to trace to exactly this
> bogus reporting in pg_ctl [1]. Although I was originally not
> very pleased with changing our getopt_long to do switch reordering,
> I'm now wondering if we should back-patch these changes as bug
> fixes. It's probably not worth the risk, but ...
I'm not too concerned about the risks of back-patching these commits, but
if this 19-year-old bug was really first reported today, I'd agree that
fixing it in the stable branches is probably not worth it.
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